Meaning of kinemometer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An electromagnetic device, similar to the velocity ballistocardiograph, for measuring contraction and relaxation in a tendon reflex.
2. A highly sensitive type of tachometer.

Examples

“He suggested that the Lawson kinemometer, a quantitative device for testing the Achilles' tendon jerks, might be a useful method for surveying families for hypothyroidism.”

“Typical reflexes of hypothyroid and hyperthyroid children are described; the kinemometer proved useful in diagnosis and treatment of thyroid disorders.”

“The development and a practical application of an electromagnetic device (kinemometer) for measuring the reflex speed⟳ of the Achilles' reflex also has merit in diagnosing thyroid dysfunction (24) .”

“Measurement of the ankle reflex time by means of a kinemometer has been shown to be a useful aid in the clinical diagnosis of hypothyroidism.”

“M. Jacquemier, inventor of the kinemometer, dynamometer, and other useful appliances, gained the Plumey Prize; and M. Marcel Deprez the Fourneyron, for his ingenious electric experiments on the Chemin-de-fer du Nord.”

“The bureau's researches in the war involving electrical principles covered many subjects—the location of enemy batteries by means of sound-recording mechanisms, the electrical control⟳ of airplane guns to fire between the propeller blades, time studies of gunfiring, variation of gun pressures, ejection-velocity studies by recoil meters, the development of kinemometers to measure⟳ the jumps and whip of a gun on firing, the measurement of projectile velocities inside the gun, and scientific studies of the gun blast.”

“The data collection subsystem is a part of the pollution control⟳ facilities, and includes the pollutant exhaust⟳ supervising instruments installed at the scene of the pollution source (online monitoring and analysis instruments for COD, TOC, pH, water pollution, sulfur dioxide, smoke⟳, dust, and air pollutants), flowmeters and kinemometers, running recording instruments at pollution control⟳ facilities (black box), and instruments for data collection and delivery (used for data saving, encrypting, displacement, and receiving, and for sounding alarms).”

“Over a 5 days period beginning on November 21, 2011 and ending on November 26, 2011 we deployed an array of hydrodynamic and sediment dynamic sensors on a tripod frame, including two turbidity sensors, two pore water pressure sensors, one sea gauge wave⟳ tide recorder, one kinemometer, and one acoustic erosion measuring instrument (Fig. 21.2).”

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